Compulsion Quote by James Jones

Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is an artificial…

— Brooks Atkinson

It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all.

— Jean de la Bruyere

“For most writers, reading is also a very intense experience; they don’t read so much as compete. The writer measure’s himself against every text…

— Betsy Lerner

Reading yields a wish to write, I think, except if the reading is dull and uninspiring.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Writers who don't read can't write well. It's that simple. The more you read, the better you read, the better you'll write. The upside…

— Laura Lippman

There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do.…

— Mortimer Adler

Because a man can write great works he is none the less a man.

— W. Somerset Maugham

For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of…

— Ben Jonson

The more a man writes, the more he can write.

— William Hazlitt

When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Those who write clearly have readers.

— Albert Camus

To be a well-flavored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature.

— William Shakespeare